Nic Fishman
Doctoral Student at Harvard University
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolNic Fishman is a PhD student in Statistics at Harvard with 11 years of applied research and engineering experience at the intersection of machine learning, causal inference, and the science of science. He builds end-to-end systems—from MySQL-backed polling infrastructure and automated analysis pipelines used in political campaigns to probabilistic graphical models and diffusion models for protein design—while publishing methodological work on nonparametric Bayesian and variational inference. His projects span huge observational datasets (location traces, grant and abstract corpora) and tightly controlled experimental settings (adaptive conjoint designs and sequence optimization), unified by careful treatment of nonconvex optimization and uncertainty quantification. Nic combines academic rigor from institutions including Stanford, Oxford, MIT and Harvard with practical impact at organizations like Data for Progress and Google, and brings a rare fluency in both policy-focused data work and generative biology.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Enrollment program, 4.0.
• Machine Learning with Professor C. Monteleoni
• Introduction to Bioinformatics with Professor K. Crandall
• Cryptography with Professor V. Nelson, Dual Enrollment program, 4.0.
• Machine Learning with Professor C. Monteleoni
• Introduction to Bioinformatics with Professor K. Crandall
• Cryptography with Professor V. Nelson at The George Washington UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Woodrow Wilson High SchoolMasters by Research, Statistics, Masters by Research, Statistics at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Harvard UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Sociology with Honors, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Sociology with Honors at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
108reputation
10kreached
9answers
3questions
Github Skills (94)
dna-sequences10
statistics9
python9
bayesian-methods9
machine-learning9
probabilistic-reasoning9
jax8
deep-learning8
gpu8
probabilistic-programming8
jit8
tensorflow8
data-science8
neural-network7
mnist7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
njwfish/njwfish.github.io
Sep 2017 - Mar 2026
Contributions:134 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
njwfish/elrpy
Feb 2023 - Jun 2026
Contributions:28 pushes, 4 branches, 2 issues in 3 years 4 months
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